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Got an email from Blockheads Burritos the other day, which has one location in the Midtown Lunch boundaries (3rd Ave. btw. 33+34th) and two locations just outside of the ML boundaries (one on 50th btw. 8+9th, and one on 2nd Ave. btw. 50+51st).

“I am the Administrative Assistant over at Blockheads Burritos and I’m very interested in getting our locations on your map. How can we go about this? Can you send me some literature or a link? Maybe even a call? Thank you in advance!”

I’ll tell you how you get on the map… serve good lunch food, for cheap- and if the Midtown Lunch readers deem you worthy, then you get added to the canon of official Midtown Lunches. I admit Blockheads is not completely off the radar… it’s been mentioned by a few commenters and Profiled Midtown Lunch’ers (most notably Kristy) and I have considered crossing 8th Ave. on many occasions to try one of their burritos. But part of the former L.A. resident in me feels a little bit of skepticism towards this after-work-party-spot. They do have a $9 lunch combo (which includes chips, salsa, and a soda) which is intriguing.

I only go here during the warmer days to take advantage of the outdoor seating. The food is alright, but I’m not sure if it’s worth the price we pay for it. I definitely don’t trek over here during the colder seasons.

Definitely not “real” mexican by any means, but good if you are craving somewhat healthy faux mexican that’s a bit fresher tasting than chipotle. They do a decently priced $8.95 lunch special that includes a choice of various (giant) burritos / quesadillas served with chips, salsa, and soda. The plus for blockheads is that for they allow you to customize your burrito pretty nicely at no extra charge for many items, e.g. whole wheat tortilla rather than regular, brown rice instead of spanish rice, etc. The fillings are fairly bland, so I’d recommend getting these with no rice at all since rice tends to mute the flavor even more.

I order from Blockheads on Seamless all the time. They serve a mini burrito lunch special (their normal burritos are way too big for most people) that comes with a sexy little side salad. Def one of my favorite delivery lunches to the office.